Greta Gerwig: Barbenheimer made it feel like people were going to cinemas again
Greta Gerwig has said the Barbenheimer phenomenon made it feel like “everyone was going to the movies again”.
The Barbie film, directed and co-written by Gerwig, was released in July on the same day as the Christopher Nolan epic Oppenheimer, leading to a nickname that merged the film titles together.
On 4’s Desert Island Discs, host asked the American filmmaker what it felt like to be caught up in, what some had called, “the cultural phenomenon of the year”.
